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Moi Tina ja tervetuloa! I hope you enjoy the forum! What kind of dogs do you have? asks a person who adores doggies

Hmph, is anyone up for another group reading in March? I know some of you are still reading GwtW, but I was thinking we don't need to start at the beginning of March, and we could pick one of those shorter books?

I know, and I want to enjoy it too, to the fullest, and I do enjoy it but sometimes it just feels like a chore. I think the main problem is that lately I haven't had the time to concentrate on it for a longer period, I've been doing this and that. But I'm afraid that since I'm already on page 65 I would just hate to leave it and then have to start it again later. I'm gonna have dinner now and after that I have some spare time and I'm really gonna give it a good go Mind you, I think this book is the kind of book that I might want to own and reread later in life. So that's good news Yes yes yes!! Went to three libraries today, borrowed these from uni library: - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (I just realised today that it's in the uni library collection!! Woo!!) - The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (see above) - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon - The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse - Letters for Demian by Jorge Bucay The first four books are for the Rory Challenge, the first novel might also be in the 1001 Books challenge. I'm really looking forward to reading these but some of them are so huge that I'm not going for them immediately. The real perk of borrowing books from the uni library is that if you're lucky and there are no reservations for the books, sometimes you can hold on to them for a year, as long as you remember to reborrow them online :D I'm so naughty. I belong on the naughty step.

Stupid Ryan Kesler What in the world? Slovakia just sent Sweden packing? I feel sorry for them. Sorry Peter Forsberg <3 On a more joyful note, Finland beat the Czechs. Oh boy oh boy!

I read maybe 30 pages of Flowers for Algernon last night before bed. I don't know what it is about this book. When I read it, I really like it, but I never feel like picking it up (I'm always fantasizing about reading some other book). The next morning I can never remember what happened in the book. Well I remember the bigger picture, but not the smaller details, which annoys me because I like the smaller details when I'm reading the book!!

Great review Charm! Oh boy, oh boy, I wanna buy the book... but shouldn't really...

I don't have it bookmarked but I'm always logged on and when I open my browser it always starts with the sites from my previous Opera session, so I always have goodreads automatically opened. But I use goodreads mostly to list my read books so it's usually opened on that page. But I guess if I logged out and started from the main page it would show me my friends' latest updates. Good idea, thanks

And another very lucky gal, Mexicola Nice haul!

Nicola, you're one lucky gal I'm particularly pleased that you got Jane Eyre and Dracula!

I hardly ever read magazines. The only time I do read them is when I go home to my parents and I'll read the ones Mum has saved for me. I'm just much more of a book person I guess I do remember reading more magazines when I was a teenager though. I remember we had a store that sold a few British magazines, I wish could remember the names... Then they stopped selling them and I started frequenting this 7/11 kind of thingie and moaned to the owner how they didn't have those magazines, and then she started ordering a couple of issues of those magazines every month, just for me She even gave me a candybar once because I was such a happy customer Those were the days!

She didn't get punished in any way. This all happened in the 60s and 70s and apparently in those days there weren't that many (if at all) legal rights for children to protect them from this kind of thing happening to them. When they had a court hearing for the judge to decide if Dave should continue living with his Mum or if he should be put in a foster home, the judge seemed to be on the fence and only after hearing Dave himself he decided that the best place for Dave is not his parents place. Thank goodness for that. I think today the school and the school nurses have an obligation to notify the authorities if they suspect any kind of abuse of the studens, whereas in this book it was mentioned that the school nurse and the principal and some of the teachers who found out about Dave's situation actually risked their own jobs by letting the police know about it. So quite a lot has changed over the last decades. About the mother.. I personally think she must have suffered from a mental disorder of one or many sorts but this thing was never really discussed in the book, it was only mentioned that Dave's Mum had had a similar kind of upbringing as Dave and was raising her children the way her own mother had raised hers. However, when Dave was still living with the family he was the only one who was beaten up and treated worse than a stray dog. So it's all very confusing. I agree. Reading only this kind of genre will definitely affect a person even without their knowing about it, and I don't think it's healthy at all. Even reading thrillers only would be a much better thing, because it's make believe and not true. However, I don't think there's anything wrong with this kind of genre per se. It can help people who suffer from similar situations, it can help others recognise these things in their environment and help do something about it. It's also good for people who've lived a normal childhood to realise there are other kinds of childhood stories and to understand what kind of an impact that has on a person.

Cool! I'll be keeping an eye on your reading blog to see what you thought of it after you've read it vodkafan, the books are really disturbing and upsetting and it's really hard to explain why someone would like to continue reading these when they're so awful. I personally think it's not because of the 'social porn' aspect. For me, it was because I needed to know what happened to Dave, if he would be alright in the end. In addition to that, I really wanted to know what the **** was wrong with the mother and if she was in any way punished for what she'd done.

Couldn't help but come here when I saw your post on Book Activity thread, I wanna celebrate! I'm so pleased for you! Club Dead was a really good SS-book, I don't think it was one of my favorites when I was reading it but on hindsight it's one of the best, definitely Enjoy it!

Hello Bev and welcome to the forum!

Shin, that's a real bargain! I hope you enjoy Ian Rankin, I thought the book was excellent. Read a few more pages of Algernon before I dosed off last night.

That sounds logical, the only problem is that when I was meticulously going through the webpages last night I swear I didn't notice that 'follow reviews' button. I'm gonna take another look right now. Edit: Ahaa! I think I have figured out the problem. I wanted to follow my friend Kaisa's reviews (because I thought following meant something like automatically getting updates on what she's reading) but since she's already my friend, there's nothing to follow since I get all the details as a friend. So, I can only follow people I haven't befriended. Make sense?

Will do, peacefield! (So nice that your father and you were reading the same book at the same time, this never happens in my family... )

How do you follow someone on Goodreads? Is there a button to click or do I just need to 'stalk' them regularly enough? It might seem like a stupid question but I have really no idea about this 'following' thingy. Apparently I have two followers, what does that mean?

This is music to my ears It's on one (maybe two?) of my reading challenges and I really want to like it

StephenKingman, that's amazing.... I'm so envious!! I love the yellow and red in the decorating.

Oh it was a reread for you, didn't know that I am having a hard time getting into the book but I don't know why. Everytime I read it I like it, but then there's always some other book that seems more interesting and I'll read that instead of FfA. So it doesn't really make any sense.

Hello Nicola and welcome to the forum! Your avatar is really cute

Thanks for your input ethan, I'm going to see if I can find that book in the library. Although I'd rather read a fictional book about the period to keep me more interested. However, I don't think slavery was romanticized in the novel, or rather, if it was, people today know that it was by no means a nice business at all and will not take the book as it is. You have to give us more credit than that None of us said that the Klan was a good thing and that they were right to kill people. I only said that I understand the reasons behind the Klan a bit better now.

I've been flying through the books because they're so short! After that Ann Rule book all the ones I've read have had less than 200 pages, that's why. It feels pretty great to be finishing them so quickly after GwtW Book 21. A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer I'm relieved that I've now read all of the books and can put this depressing reading era behind me, it's been a shock. 4/5